After years of planning, a new teen center opened in Brownsville, giving local youth a much-needed place after school to build skills, find support and form community.
The Brownsville Teen Lounge, the first-ever teen lounge in the neighborhood, according to organizers, sits in the center of the Brownsville Houses, a public housing complex. The center, at 350 Blake Ave., is open to middle school and high school-aged children and provides a lounge space, a podcast and media production station and a learning area with computers.
“It’s more of an intimate setting for the teens to be in, and a social recreation space where they can enhance their emotional, social and learning skills through interactions with adults and peers who are a part of the program,” said Vincent Hurst, the teen lounge supervisor…